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October 21, 2024

Hartford HealthCare plans new cancer center as part of major Capital City expansion

Contributed An architect's rendering of the proposed addition of five buildings on the Hartford HealthCare campus.
By David Krechevsky

Hartford HealthCare has filed an application with the city of Hartford seeking to expand its 65-acre flagship hospital campus by adding five buildings.

The special permit application to the Hartford Planning & Zoning Commission outlines Hartford Hospital's draft “facilities master plan.” The projects eyed for the next decade include:

  • A new parking garage with up to 1,600 spaces and ground-floor space for clinical and community support programs, totaling about 600,000 square feet. 
  • A new, 470,000-square-foot inpatient bed tower.
  • A new 80,000-square-foot patient bed wing expansion.
  • A new 80,000-square-foot cancer center and Emergency Department expansion, and
  • A new 35,000-square-foot medical office building and President’s Corner revitalization.

The garage expansion would be done in two phases and include demolishing the existing garage at 127 Jefferson St., which is slated to begin in early December. The proposal also would combine the lot at 127 Jefferson St. with lots at 143-145 Jefferson St.

The special permit request is on the agenda for the next meeting of the Planning and Zoning and Inland Wetlands Commission, which is scheduled for Tuesday at 6 p.m. There was no official price tag on all the projects. 

A Hartford HealthCare spokesperson said in an email that the organization is "in the preliminary stages of this project and there is no confirmed financial number at this point."

The spokesperson said there are “many steps as we evaluate potential future buildings and share those plans with the city.” The email added that the proposal is “conceptual in nature to show how the Hartford Hospital campus could evolve to better serve the needs of the community and improve the patient experience.”

The application comes three years after Hartford HealthCare officially opened its $70 million, four-story Bliss Expansion building in October 2021.

That building, at 71 Jefferson St., features 18 critical care beds and five operating rooms. It expanded the hospital’s intensive care unit by 20%, its MRI and diagnostic capabilities by 25% and its operating room capacity by 10%.

Note: This article was updated to reflect that there is no official price tag on the overall project.

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